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dnsmasq without altering /etc/hosts file manually

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I've trying to get dnsmasq working as a combined dns and dhcp server. It's infuriating so far... In short, the DNS works fine for anything added to /etc/hosts, and the dhcp works fine, but the dhcp is not updating the dns with hostname information from clients. The outcome of this is that i can onl…

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The DHCP client needs to send a name to have the name made available in the DNS. Otherwise dnsmasq can supply the name, but you have to configure that in /etc/dnsmasq.conf or /etc/hosts first. Since dnsmasq is a DNS server, you need to have a domain…

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